Paultns Park - A fantastic fun filled day out for under 12's (Paultons Family Theme Park)

Member Name: Aginoth

Product:	Paultons Family Theme Park
Date:	26/08/07 (249 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Loads to do, few queues, rides for all ages, well laid out

Disadvantages: pricey, almost all outdoors

We had a fantastic day at Paultons Park. It's definitely a theme park for younger children, but we found more than enough to keep all our three aged 7, 4 and 2 occupied non-stop from opening (10.00am) to closing (5.30pm) and they would've stayed much longer if allowed.

It is expensive, costing us £70 or so for 3 adults (one disabled, so not using the rides, one OAP, so not using the rides) and the two kids - although the 2 year old just about made it in free because of her height.

However, the park is really well laid out, clean, friendly, has almost no "extra charge" attractions and stuffed full of things for the kids to do.

I particularly liked the free "sit on" rides everywhere - these are the train/car/bus rides that usually live outside amusment arcades and cost 50p to rock backwards and forwards a couple of times. My kids are never usually allowed to put money in them, so they thought it was great to be able to just press a start button, and it was a fantastic way to keep the little ones busy while the bigger ones went on the "scarier" rides.

Although, there were plenty of adventure play areas dotted around as well which were suitable for toddlers through to 11/12 years.

Each section of the park had some bigger rides and some littler ones, so there was no waiting around while one child did something - unlike Alton Towers type parks where they put all the baby rides together then the little ones just have to drag around watching everyone else having fun!

The toilets were plentiful as well. And clean! and each one had a toddler seat availale, which shows someone has been thinking about what would make life easier.

My kids weren't too excited about the birds and animals, but we did use the dinosaur walk to calm them down a little. There were not very long queues even for the bigger rides, even though we went in the middle of the summer holidays, and no queues for the smaller rides.

Overview: My 7 years olds most used phrase of the day was "that was the BEST ride I've EVER been on!"

Summary: well worth a visit if you have younger children